Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities

ISBN-13: 9780415589789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

Stephen Daniels;Dydia DeLyser;J Nicholas Entrikin

Opis

This volume examines digital and participatory geographies, reflections on space and place in literature and the visual arts, geography's interactions with philosophy and history, and scientific exploration.

Spis treści

Part 1: Mapping  1. Why America is Called America  2. Above the Dead Cities  3. Digital Cartographies and Medieval Geographies  4. Mapping the Taboo  5. ‘Choros, Chora’ and the Question of Landscape  6. Thematic Cartography and the Study of American History  Part 2: Reflecting  7. Do Places Have Edges? A Geo-Philosophical Inquiry  8. Race, Mobility and the Humanities: A Geosophical Approach  9. The World in Plain View  10. Courtly Geography: Nature, Authority and Civility in Early Eighteenth Century France  11. Darwinian Landscapes  12. Travel and the Domination of Space in the European Imagination  13. The Good Inherit the Earth  Part 3: Representing  14. Putting Pablo Neruda’s ‘Alturas de Machu Picchu’ In Its Places  15. Great Balls of Fire: Envisioning the Brilliant Meteor of 1783  16. Reading Landscapes and Telling Stories: Geography, the Humanities and Environmental History  17. Participatory Historical Geography? Shaping and Failing to Shape Social Memory at an Oklahoma Monument  18. Still-Life, After-Life ‘Nature Morte’: W.G. Sebald and the Demands of Landscape  19. The Texture of Space: Desire and Displacement in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s ‘Woman of the Dunes’  20. Restoration: Synoptic Reflections  21. Overlapping Ambiguities, Disciplinary Perspectives and Metaphors of Looking: Reflections on a Landscape Photograph  Part 4: Performing  22. Inverting Perspective: Icons’ Performative Geographies  23. Literary Geography: The Novel as a Spatial Event  24. Materialising Vision: Performing a High-Rise View  25. Technician of Light: Patrick Geddes and the Optic of Geography  26. Deserted Places, Remote Voices: Performing Landscape  27. Photography and Its Circulations  28. Beyond the Power of Art to Represent?: Narratives and Performances of the Arctic in the 1630s  29. Navigating the Northwest Passage

O autorze

Stephen Daniels is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Dydia DeLyser is Associate Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University, USA.

J. Nicholas Entrikin is Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization at the University of Notre Dame.

Douglas Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers, USA.